Donald Trump is still a Republican's best hope for re-election in 2018

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Bob Corker, once highly critical of Trump, is now lining up behind him

Stop just for a minute fantasising over the White House disaster porn doing the rounds. I know it is hard, what with Michael Wolff’s absorbing account of how the president is mentally unfit for office, or the jokes about what Donald Trump gets up to during his “executive time” in the mornings, or the speculation that impeachment is only days away.

That only tells one small part of the story.

The idea that Mr Trump is on the brink of annihilation is an attractive and familiar theme of the past two years, through the primaries, the election campaign and now his first year in power.

And it is no more true now than it was when tape emerged of him boasting about groping women, the time he went head...